by watlingboy » Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:30 pm
Caille did produce manuals, they are just hard to find. I have a multi page manual for the Caille Center Pull and the A.C. Multibell which is an 8 1/2 by 11" booklet. Did they make one for the Caille Superior, don't know, never looked for one but I would imagine they made something. I think your complaint is really with the Fuller Company who bought out the Caille Brothers and produced all of those mid to late '30's machines, Cadet, Dictator, Commander, etc. Because the Caille family sold the name, they could no longer use it but they felt they had 1 more machine in them, that machine was the A.C. Multibell standing for Adolph Caille, the father and founder.
If you want a company that produced almost nothing except for instruction sheets glued to the back door, that would be Watling. Based on letters that have survived, if there was a problem, they wanted you to write to them and tell them the problem. They would then send you a letter describing what they thought the problem was with a photo of a mech and the problem area circled in red. If that didn't help they wanted you to ship the mech to them via Rail Way Express. A few of these letter have survived.
George